Meet Luiseach and Farf, two beautiful young ladies hailing from opposite sides of the Irish Sea who share between them a love not only of Mills and Boon, really really (or in Farf's case, 'quite') old things, watching period dramas (especially those containing Sean Bean), drinking gin in its various manifestations but also, most importantly, BAKING.
Forced to live apart, this time with a vast body of water coming between their platonic (although not according to appearances) relationship, they have decided to immortalise the events of Summer 2010* by undertaking to complete a baking challenge - to devise and create a different flavour of macaroon for each week in 2011.
And so the games begin...
Until further notice, the terms of the challenge stand thusly:
- The challengees shall undertake to bake a minumum of 52 flavours** of macaroons between them from the 1st January to 31st December 2011.
- Each week of the ascertained time period will be devoted to one flavour of macaroon.
- For each week of the ascertained time period, baking will be undertaken by one of the challangees (if not both).
- The results will be posted on this site by the Monday of the week following, with accompanying taste-test scores, photographs and baking tips.
- If for any reason a challengee is unable to do their share of the baking at any point, the flavour(s) missed will be carried over into the next week.
* When the dashing duo memorably filched some lavender from outside the British Library to make their first joint batch of macaroons instead of writing their MA dissertations. Other procrastination methods that summer involved reading period romance novels, illicitly watching episodes of Sharpe in the BL cafe and drinking gin.
**There are no particular restrictions on flavours, although they will more often than not be determined by availability (/cost) of ingredients, the time of year, flashes of day-to-day inspiration and how much effort we feel like making on the given week.
